Rather than wait until New Year’s Eve or Day, we decided that today (Tuesday) marked a perfectly good time to run our annual Year in Review. So, did anything happen in 2020? Well, gosh, a lot happened, and it was not all pandemic-related. Here are a whole lotta links to the biggest news stories of…
Author: Stoutmeister
Former sports writer in Tucson, LA, and Burque. Now I write about craft beer, which is a totally reasonable way to support my hobby of spending afternoons and evenings indulging in the finest stouts, lagers, and more.
Ex Novo Brewing keeps the patio cozy and the beers varied to make its way through 2020
Ex Novo Brewing in Corrales has quickly become a big player in the local craft beer scene, an impressive feat for a place that only opened in May 2019. Just like its fellow New Mexico breweries, however, 2020 has been a brutally tough year on Ex Novo, but there have been just enough bright spots…
The Week Ahead in Beer: A colorful Christmas courtesy of Bosque Brewing
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
The Week Ahead in Beer: Only the strong will survive the resumption of the stout onslaught
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
New Mexico Brewers Guild keeps the collaborative spirit alive during tough times
Back in March 2019, Leah Black accepted the role of executive director of the New Mexico Brewers Guild. She told us then it might take a full year to get fully acclimated to the job. A full year later, the job changed in ways she could not have imagined due to events completely out of…
Bosque Brewing weathers multiple challenges at multiple taprooms in 2020
Taprooms open, taprooms closed. Kitchens open, kitchens closed. Patios open, patios closed. One taproom open, another closed. The early weeks of the pandemic left Bosque Brewing’s employees, owners, and customers feeling like their heads were spinning. Things have stabilized, as much as anything can in 2020, since then, but it has still been a heck…
Tractor Brewing hopes to start firing on all cylinders again in 2021
The challenge of maintaining even a single brewery taproom has been tremendous during 2020. The challenge of maintaining five locations, including a production-and-packaging facility, has been downright monumental. In the face of everything 2020 has thrown at it, Tractor Brewing is still standing. Not all of its locations have lasted through the year, but on…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Raise your horns to a decadent decade of La Cumbre
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
Brew Lab 101 sees its business model pushed into overdrive in 2020
Every now and again, while writing stories in our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series, we get surprised. This year, with all the doom and gloom of the pandemic, we kinda feared those surprises. And then, along came Brew Lab 101 Beer & Cider Co. brewmaster/co-owner Scott Salvas. “2020 was a good year for us,” he…
The Week Ahead in Beer: A blast of winter cannot stop the hops
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
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